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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3><DIV class=mxb><DIV class=sh>Germany tries 'Holocaust denier' </DIV></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=203 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV>
<DIV class=cap>Rudolf denied that the Nazis used gas at death camps like Auschwitz</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A German man deported from the US has gone on trial in the Germany city of Mannheim for alleged Holocaust denial.
Germar Rudolf published a study saying the Nazis did not use gas to kill Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The prosecution says he "represented the Holocaust as invention" and used the internet to spread his documents.
If found guilty, Mr Rudolf will face up to five years in prison. He has already been given an jail sentence in a similar case but fled to the US.
A chemistry graduate, 42-year-old Mr Rudolf also faces charges of defaming the memory of the dead.
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</TD><TD class=sibtbg><DIV class=sih>COUNTRIES WITH LAWS AGAINST HOLOCAUST DENIAL </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>Austria</DIV><DIV class=bull>Belgium</DIV><DIV class=bull>Czech Republic</DIV><DIV class=bull>France</DIV><DIV class=bull>Germany</DIV><DIV class=bull>Israel</DIV><DIV class=bull>Lithuania</DIV><DIV class=bull>Poland</DIV><DIV class=bull>Slovakia</DIV><DIV class=bull>Switzerland</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
He was sentenced to 14 months in prison in a similar case in 1995 but fled the country.
His 2000 application for political asylum in the US was rejected and he was deported back to Germany to serve the earlier sentence.
In a similar case in February 2005, British revisionist historian David Irving was found guilty of denying the Holocaust by an Austrian court and sentenced to three years in prison. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<DIV class=cap>Rudolf denied that the Nazis used gas at death camps like Auschwitz</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A German man deported from the US has gone on trial in the Germany city of Mannheim for alleged Holocaust denial. Germar Rudolf published a study saying the Nazis did not use gas to kill Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The prosecution says he "represented the Holocaust as invention" and used the internet to spread his documents.
If found guilty, Mr Rudolf will face up to five years in prison. He has already been given an jail sentence in a similar case but fled to the US.
A chemistry graduate, 42-year-old Mr Rudolf also faces charges of defaming the memory of the dead.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5>
</TD><TD class=sibtbg><DIV class=sih>COUNTRIES WITH LAWS AGAINST HOLOCAUST DENIAL </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>Austria</DIV><DIV class=bull>Belgium</DIV><DIV class=bull>Czech Republic</DIV><DIV class=bull>France</DIV><DIV class=bull>Germany</DIV><DIV class=bull>Israel</DIV><DIV class=bull>Lithuania</DIV><DIV class=bull>Poland</DIV><DIV class=bull>Slovakia</DIV><DIV class=bull>Switzerland</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>He was sentenced to 14 months in prison in a similar case in 1995 but fled the country.
His 2000 application for political asylum in the US was rejected and he was deported back to Germany to serve the earlier sentence.
In a similar case in February 2005, British revisionist historian David Irving was found guilty of denying the Holocaust by an Austrian court and sentenced to three years in prison. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
